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County staff present draft road-improvement guidance to govern developer cost-shares; supervisors seek limits and safeguards
Summary
Planning, roads and county attorney staff presented a draft policy to guide developer-funded road upgrades and potential county cost shares. The Board favored making white/yellow growth-area segments eligible for cost share, discussed a 50% county ceiling in appropriate cases, and asked staff to return with a near-final draft.
Johnson County planning, roads and legal staff presented a draft “road improvement guidance” document on Aug. 27 that lays out how the county would negotiate voluntary and required road upgrades, who would fund them and when the county would accept cost-share agreements.
The draft grew from a multi‑department working group and is intended to provide developers and landowners a predictable framework for requests to upgrade county roads at private expense or by cost-share. Nate Mueller, assistant director, Planning and Development Services (PDS), said the document divides candidate road segments in the county’s growth areas into categories: segments staff considered straightforward candidates, segments with complicating factors and those where…
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